using more thn one deck?

If you have has it been limited to going to a second deck after you decide you need clarification on a point?

Have you ever gotten a reading where you were certain that one of the cards would have come up twice if it was possible?

Have you ever layed down a card and wondered if the meaning that would fit better is the one from the deck you were using last week?

Have you ever wundered if large spreads had a problem because you were trying to pull to large a percentage of an only 78 card deck?

For me. Yes to 1 but only in the case of 2 so far. And yes to 3 and 4 and 5.

jema

18 Sep 2002

i often use more then one deck but only as a comparison.
that is i draw the cards from only one deck and put the same cards from another deck above the others to get two versions of the same cards.

i never tried it your way though. first of all it would be kind of hard to even handle 78+78 cards! then i have to wonder if it would really contribute anything.
i can't tell though since i never tried it.

Laurel

18 Sep 2002

Its been years since I played around with more than one deck in a reading. I had interesting experiences as I recall, but didn't feel like it really enhanced a reading.

I have read with a "double deck" of both Haindl and Voyager cards and had the same card show up twice in a reading because of it. That's actually been more helpful than mixing two decks. A "double deck" is really hard to shuffle and not something I'd do seriously because of the awkwardness of handling so many cards in a skillful manner.

When it comes to meanings, if the meaning for the situation is inspired by a different rendition of the card- I use it without hesitation. I don't stick to narrowly defined definitions and let what one deck teaches me add to my "general knowledge".

I don't use spreads of more than 15 cards, so I don't have that lack of diversity problem. If I did use larger spreads, I'd consider adapting a "double deck" to compensate.

Laurel

faunabay

18 Sep 2002

I'll sometimes use two oracle decks together. Or then sometimes I'll do say a 5 card spread with a tarot deck then do the same spread with an oracle. I do this to add to the meanings. It has helped immensely in the past.
I haven't done it with 2 tarot decks though. hmmmmmm That is a thought about how maybe the same card would like to come up twice......

WillieHewes

19 Sep 2002

I only *have* two decks! :(

I've gone through other decks when stuck on the meaning of a card, because it helps to remember what it looks like in another version, but a lot of the time it's far from helpful. Because every deck (except when they're virtual copies) tends to have it's own take on a card, and accentuates different aspects, it generally just confuses things to mix them up.

Although I can imagine it being useful if you're stuck on interpretation, like I said. I don't know. I think a double deck would be really hard to handle as well...

Sometimes my boyfriend sends me spreads he did through the phone (distance is a problem in our relationship) and asks me to help interpret them. I'm never much help though. I don't know, to me, Tarot is such a personal thing that I can't really do interpretations for anyone else, unless they come to me to ask a question.

Does that make sense to anyone?

kabuki

19 Sep 2002

I often find that when I am using a deck, instead of interpreting the cards in front of me I sart to 'see' cards from other decks and interpret them instead. This, usually, happens with cards from decks that I seem to have a strong relationship with. I did attempt to mix all my favourite cards from different decks together and do some readings but I found that they were all different shapes and sizes making it difficult to shuffle.

I've never thought about combining packs and doing a 'huge' reading but it sounds interesting, although I fear that I would become obsessed and try to combine all my packs together ... a spread containg all the 'knight of swords' would be an interesting (?) experience.